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Non-European Attitudes

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Since the discovery of luxurious non-European goods and their prosperous economic nature, European intervention outside of Europe steadily increased focused by the motives of “god, glory, and gold.” European systematically discovered each inch of the globe and thus created inevitable circumstances of interaction between Europeans and non-Europeans lasting from late 1700s to early 1900s. European attitudes toward this interaction greatly varied due to intellectual and cultural European trends that greatly altered their own point of view. Early interactions were guided by widely accepted Enlightenment ideals that expected individualism and tolerable thus creating an attitude of awe and respect from the Europeans to non-Europeans. However, the rise of nationalism, Industrial Revolution, and …show more content…

In the time period of 1760 to 1910, European attitudes towards non-Europeans changed from cautious respect to unveiled condescension due to change in intellectual thought inspired by nationalism, social Darwinism, and a superiority

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The Europeans were the ones to initiate the human encounter seeing that Columbus accidently stumbled upon America. To the natives, the Europeans were strangers, invaders that they saw as threats, causing them to go into a defensive state. The Natives responded in multiple ways based on factors such as: “perceived nature, power and stance of the European challengers” (Axtell 100). In order to maintain the status quo ante, the natives attempted at using five strategies: incorporating the Europeans, beating them, joining them, copying their ways, and avoiding them altogether. The Europeans were seen as “equal or superior” in the native’s eyes “powerful and potentially dangerous “persons,” animated “souls” like their own, or “gods,” “spirits” from the heavens (Axtell 101).

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The interactions of Europeans outside of Europe increased steadily. With the discovery of vast non-European goods, their economic nature had been successful. Interaction between European and non-Europeans lasting from the late 1700s to early 1900s, attitudes greatly varied due to intellectual and cultural European trends that altered their point of view. European attitudes towards non-Europeans changed from cautious respect to a belief of superiority due to changes in intellectual thought inspired by nationalism, local dominion, and an idea of superiority over another nation. The rise of nationalism created a condescending and disrespectful European view towards non-Europeans in the time period of 1710-1910.

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